Entergy Texas Estimates Power Restoration Will Take Several Days

By Lance Lowry

07-09-2024

Hurricane Beryl caused widespread outages Monday morning. Over an estimated 2.1 Million CenterPoint customers in Houston alone were without power.

Locally the storm produced major outages with over 10,267 Entergy customers and 3,754 Sam Houston Electric customers without power in Walker County.

Elsewhere in the service area Entergy reported 152,048 Montgomery County Entergy customers without power.

Beryl left most of Southern Walker County without power. The storm rapidly lost intensity upon entering higher elevations in Northern areas of Montgomery County and Southern Walker County. Huntsville was greatly spared the wrath of the storm as the eye of the storm dramatically shifted.

As of 6:30 PM Monday, approximately 247,000 Entergy Texas customers were without power. Entergy Texas stated “a workforce of more than 1,300 damage assessors, vegetation crews, line workers, and support personnel have been mobilized to diligently restore power as quickly and safely as possible.”

People shouldn’t attempt to clear debris in contact with power lines, even though the power may appear to be off. A team of utility crews will be in the area over the next several days clearing debris from utility infrastructure and restoring the power.

Be patient and plan ahead as most restoration will likely take days, instead of hours due to the scope of the damage to the regionally impacted infrastructure.